Improvement in caps



UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN STATTMANN AND FRIEDERICH S'IT'IMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILL.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAPS.y

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,092, dated October23, 1866 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHRISTIAN STATTMANN and FRIEDERIGH STATTMANN, ofChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Convertible Caps 5 and we do herebydeclare 4and make known that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and the letters and figures marked thereon, whichform part of this specification.

The nature of our said invention consists in providing a cap to be wornupon the head with a reversible flap or semi-covering, whose sides arecomposed of different material, as glazed cloth upon one side and anyordinary material upon the other, so that by adjusting said flap uponthe front or rear part of the cap, as hereinafter described, the saidcap is readily converted into a glazed cap for wet weather and a clothcap for ordinary' wear, or into caps of any different style or color ofmaterial, as del sired.

reference in so doing to the aforesaid drawings, in which- Figure lrepresents a side view of our invention` with the aforesaid flaparranged upon the front part of the cap. Fig. 2 represents a similarview thereof with the said flap arranged upon the rear partof the cap,and Fig. 3 is a side View of the same with the flap raised up from thefront and ready to be turned down upon the rear of the cap.

The same letters of reference in the several gures denote the same partsof our invention, which we will now specifically describe.

A represents the aforesaidreversible and adjustable flap, Whoseexterior, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is of glazed cloth suitable forwear in rainy weather, corresponding in material with the rear portionof the cap, (marked 13,) so that when adjusted as shown in Fig..1, andthe lower part secured to the buttons b b by the loops a a, as shown,the entire cap, or exterior surface thereof, is of the glazed waterproofmaterial deseribedthe top being whole or of a single piece, as inordinary caps. The interior face of said iiap, or the face turnedoutward, as shown in Fig. 2, is made of cloth, and corresponds with thematerial and style ofthe front portion of the cap, (marked C,) as shownin Figs. 2 and 3, and when adjusted as shown in Fig. 2, and th'e lowerpart secured by the loops a a to the buttons c c, as represented, theentire cap,y or the exterior surface thereof', is of the ordinarymaterial or cloth, making a cloth cap with its top of a single piece, asin caps of the ordinary kind.

The front and rear parts of the cap, (marked i C and 13,) being ofdifferent material, as described, are made in separate parts upon thesides, as seen in' Fig. 3, the loose interior lining, however, beingmade in the usual manner, if desired. The said front and rear parts, CB, are then connected by inserting an elastic band, D, between saidparts, as shown, thereby constituting a cap which is eXpansible orvariable as to size, the loops a'a, which secure the flap A to the cap,being also elastic for this purpose. Y

The two features herein described have no necessary rela-tion with eachother, and each may be used independently of the other., Havingdescribed our inventiomwe will now specify what we claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent:

1. The employment of the reversible iap A, in combination with a capwhose front and rear parts are composed of different material, arrangedand operating substantially as described and shown.

2. In a cap whose sides are slotted or separated, as described, theemployment of an elastic insertion or connection, D, substantially asand for the purposes specitied.

CHRISTIAN STATTMANN. FRIEDERICH STATTMANN.

Witnesses:

J. S. DENNIS,

W. E. MAUS.

